When George Orwell wrote about Big Brother, he was based on his own experience in the Spanish Civil War and in living down and out in Paris and London. Nobody can say he was talking rubbish. What is strange about this is that he directed his cannonfire against the Soviets, whom he saw as a much deadlier system than western capitalism. What he did was extrapolate his data into the future to beyond reason would counsel.
This is never a good way to analyse anything, unless someone has a cristal ball to show the future. As this does not exist. Orwell missed his target by a mile. Orwell prose was very convincing and very similar to the truth of the Soviet System of his time.
What he did not imagine was that the Soviet System would crumble and leave America free to become herself the Big Brother (or Big Sister, according to taste, if not Sister Trans). Curiously, everything Orwell wrote still applies, and even more, thanks to modern digital engineering.
I can still remember, from my days as a foreign student in Britain, the epic marches of the peace and anti-nuke movements in the streets. It was very moving. And I could not fail do see every window occupied by a very professional-looking photographer taking pictures of the crowd. My immediate alarm signal indicated that they were trying to identify the protesters with their long distance lenses. Maybe I am myself in some f those photos, albeit I was a mere bystander. That was the beginning of the process that would lead us to Assange and Snowden.
The Constitution of the US was never taken seriously by the elite who wrote it themselves. Freedom of speech is a problem? Let's gag the idiot. And preferably kill him or her. It is already in the public domain that the CIA has assassin teams to eliminate inconvenient people. Was that in the Constitution? Very debatable. The enormous power amassed by the US after the collapse of the USSR reinforced the 'manifest destiny' so much present in the minds of all Americans. But the use the State made of this power was not based on Reality, and this is the real topic of this post.
First of all, it must be said that Reality does not negotiate. It just is there. Like a stone wall immune to idiots. If idiots bang Reality with their heads it is their problem to stanch the hemorrhage.
Both Sun Tzu and Von Clausewitz were very clear about strategy in human conflict. And their single most profound belief was that the best way to win a battle was avoiding the battle. Both Sun Tzu and Von Clausewitz were saying that diplomacy is preferable to war.
Those savvy teachings fell into deaf ears in the US and in the UK in our twentieth century and in the present one.
The utter destruction of Lybia, Iraq and Syria were stupid errors of the American-British alliance. History will tell the tales.
But the existence of that agency called NSA means that the USA is a menace to every country on earth. And the US government doesn't see it because they are blind. NSA is the Big Brother alive and well, based on the last technology available. They can listen to cell phone calls from heads of state, and they do not care if it is known.
We cannot help thinking that the US is in a journey of brutal domination of the world. And the funny thing here is that they say it all is needed for the National Security of the USA. And there is no other option. In other words, they are blind do Reality. And what about reality? Reality will ascertain her power to restore equilibrium, and that is certain.
As Ukraine collapses under the auspices of NATO, Israel is slowly and irrevocably demolished. The name of this is Reality. And the garbage bin is full of dreams impossible. It is already very full.
It is perhaps time to evaluate diplomacy again. The military way is floundering.
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